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8:00 PM -- DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (1964)
A mad United States General orders an air strike against Russia.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Peter Sellers, George C Scott, Sterling Hayden
BW-95 mins, CC,
Nominee for Oscars for Best Actor in a Leading Role -- Peter Sellers, Best Director -- Stanley Kubrick, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium -- Stanley Kubrick, Peter George and Terry Southern, and Best Picture
Gen. Ripper's paranoia about water fluoridation being a Communist plot is based on a conspiracy theory circulated by the extreme-right-wing John Birch Society in the 1950s and 1960s. The organization, which was founded in 1958, was quite influential in conservative politics at the time, and the "fluoridation is a Communist plot" theory took hold in many rural areas of the US, with some small towns going so far as to not only ban fluoridation of water but to pass ordinances requiring the arrest and jailing of anyone who advocated it.
10:00 PM -- THE MOUSE THAT ROARED (1959)
An impoverished nation declares war on the U.S. hoping to lose and score foreign aid.
Dir: Jack Arnold
Cast: Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, William Hartnell
C-83 mins, CC,
Grand Fenwick is ruled by Duchess Gloriana XII, said to be still in mourning for her consort "Count Leopold of Bosnia Herzegovina". The country of Bosnia and Herzegovina was at that time absorbed within the Republic of Yugoslavia, then under Communist rule. It is likely that many viewers thought "Bosnia Herzegovina" was as fictitious as Grand Fenwick. Bosnia and Herzegovina only became a sovereign nation again in 1992, after the Balkans conflict had resulted in the break-up of Yugoslavia.
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(12,817 posts)Now that was truly The Right Stuff.
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elleng
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(130,129 posts)10:00 PM
An impoverished nation declares war on the U.S. hoping to lose and score foreign aid.
Dir: Jack Arnold
Cast: Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, William Hartnell
Wolf Frankula
(3,595 posts)It was perfect.
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